HCL Connections Ideas Portal

Welcome to the HCL Connections Product Ideas Lab! The place where you can submit product ideas and enhancement request. We encourage you to participate by voting on, commenting on, and creating new ideas. All new ideas will be evaluated by the HCL Product Management & Engineering teams, and the next steps will be communicated. While not all submitted ideas will be executed upon, community feedback will play a key role in influencing which ideas are and when they will be implemented.

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    No option to create scrollbar in text editor

    Right now, you can only create scrollbars in tables with HTML scripts that use the <textarea> tags. Not everyone knows how to use HTML scripting well. It would be helpful to add a user-friendly option in the table menu or during table creati...
    8 months ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review

    When adding apps through the new highlights bar in the top (v7) the customize section will close after every app

    In Connections v7, you can now add apps to a community using the Highlights "Customize" bar. However, every time you add an app, the Customize section is closed. While every time you add a widget (second tab), it remains open. Users find this anno...
    almost 4 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Needs Review

    Add an option to collapse a blog to a title and summary view vs all entries being expanded inline

    For Connections (Cloud) blogs, there should be a way to collapse the blog entries so you could more easily see the headings (titles) and expand only the entry that you want to read at the time. For example: Blog title1 Short summary, perhaps th...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Future Consideration

    Forum upload should fail right away if the size exceeds the configured limit

    Attaching a size limit-exceeding file to a forum topic or reply takes time to fail. It would be better for the UI to recognize that the file exceeds the limit and fail immediately. Instead, end users need to wait and will eventually see an appropr...
    over 2 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Needs Review

    Limit the Number of File Versions to Retain

    Files that are worked on regularly often have several hundred versions that are no longer needed. However, the normal user will not delete the old versions manually; instead, they unnecessarily use up storage space. It would be great if you could ...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 3 Under Consideration

    Activity entry template can not be used

    I have an activity and I select "Add entry" > Add a table or add links or make specific changes. Save the entry Then I go to "More Actions" "Save as Entry Template" Select a symbol and give a name. But if I then choose "more"-"Add entry templat...
    about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Connections Whiteboard as a new file

    In Connections Files the availability to not only add Document, Spreadsheet and Presentation files, but also a Whiteboard. At least with the functionality of: - Rich Text- Drawings- Add Pictures At the Google Drive I have the availability to crea...
    over 6 years ago in 03. Files 2 Under Consideration

    Delete the notification in "Recent updates" when a blogpost is edited and saved as a draft

    There is a notification appearing in "recent updates" when someone edits and saves an existing blogpost as a draft. When you delete an existing blogpost, there is no notification informing about this action, which totally makes sense. It should wo...
    about 3 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review

    Blogs - Add Role Ghost Writer

    Mostly C Levels want to publish regular blog posts written on their behalf by another person. Introduce a method within Blogs to allow such a kind of content creation on behalf of another person for blogs. This might be combined with the idea of t...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Under Consideration

    Multi-tagging in community files.

    In "my files" it is possible to tag multiple files at once. In Communities this is not possible. Multi-Tagging of files should be possible in community files.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration
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